Oracle Buying Internet Traffic Service Dyn to Extend Cloud Computing Platform

Oracle said it’s buying internet traffic service Dyn, to extend its cloud computing platform. “Oracle cloud customers will have unique access to Internet performance information that will help them optimize infrastructure costs, maximize application and website-driven revenue, and manage risk,” said Dyn Chief Strategy Officer Kyle York in a Monday news release. A month ago Dyn’s DynDNS service experienced distributed denial-of-service attacks that resulted in outages or latency for many major websites, including Netflix and Twitter (see 1610210056). The attacks spurred interest on Capitol Hill in IoT cybersecurity (see 1610260067 and 1611160051).